Wiktionary
a. including everything; universal
WordNet
adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide]
Usage examples of "all-encompassing".
The former emphasizes the created world of manyness, the latter the uncreated source or origin and both, taken in and by themselves, are dualistic through and through, no matter how much they might call themselves monistic, nondual, all-encompassing, holistic, and whatnot.
Nature as being different from culture and as the all-encompassing great Force that includes culture as well.
She jabbed a finger at Kruppe and the two marines to complete an all-encompassing gesture.
Idealist movement was, in the West, the last great attempt to introduce true Ascent and, most important, to integrate it believably with true Descentthe Ego and the Eco both taken up, preserved and negated, honored and released, in all-encompassing Spirit.
THE LEGACY OF THE IDEALISTS The Idealist movement was, in the West, the last great attempt to introduce true Ascent and, most important, to integrate it believably with true Descentthe Ego and the Eco both taken up, preserved and negated, honored and released, in all-encompassing Spirit.
All born on Cachalot rest in two cradles: their nursery, and the greater nursery of the all-encompassing Mother Ocean.
Closer to, tree-clad hills hunched defiant shoulders beneath the infinite blue skies, steep bulwarks drawn up close beneath serried spines grudging the barest suggestion of a beach to the all-encompassing seas.
Into the all-encompassing blackness trickled the soft murmur of voices, muted footsteps, and the mechanical tones of biofunction monitors.
Now, added to the force of his own nature, was the look that all cops had: that all-encompassing cynicism, the cool distance, the wall that those in law enforcement erected between themselves and those they served.
The flies, airship, railroad, docks, and walks, all of Lightfoot seemed to be receding from his touch, as if caught up by an all-encompassing ebb tide.
It spoke of all-encompassing motherly love, and of fields waving with grain and the cheerful scarves and smiles of the harvesters in the fields within which children could play from dawn to dusk without fear, and whose golden acres of grain dipped and swayed to the music of their laughter and song.
The limbs were massive yet gracious in their all-encompassing spread, and the roots went back to the Los Angeles of Jean Harlow and Mae West and W.
The all-encompassing perturbations usually begin quite far from the perambulator itself.
The time I spent in the kitchen, slicing pound cake, dishing up mints, setting out coffee service, cream and sugar, transferring coffee from the kitchen-range coffee-pot into a silver `company' serving-pot - this busy-ness gave me time to pull myself together, not expose my own rut and (I hoped) cover some of my body odour simply by the odours of food and the fact that female clothing in those days was all-encompassing.